Data Visualization

Science, Art and Data together

Abhijit Dasgupta

April 29, 2016

Science, Experiments, Data

The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

How do you look at data?

Bar charts & Histograms

Pie charts

Scatter plots

Scatter plots

From graphs to visualizations

Data Storytelling

Data is not information!!!
Data has to be converted to information
That information can inform us, tell a story
Gain understanding, gain knowledge, plan for the future
Some of the best are New York Times and The Guardian

Data as Art

Humans understand pictures better than words
An artistic viewpoint helps express the story in data
Technology allows us to create dynamic (moving) pictures to tell the story

Where do we live?

A common visualization

Better?

Drugs in San Francisco

Plotting points

In 3-D

As art

What do STEM workers study?

A Sankey diagram

School funding per student

When should you work?

It turns out great minds don’t work alike!!!

A game changer

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes